

Dawdle too long at the bottom of your screen, and those colorfully-bizarre numbers will swallow your Pac-Man whole, ending the game. In good fun, Bandai Namco has brought this conceit back for Pac-Man 256-but instead of an outright crash, the "glitch" has been retooled as a time-eating monster. The title-and those ominous munching numbers at the bottom of the screen-are nods to an infamous glitch in the 256th level of Pac-Man, wherein a coding error caused the entire screen to slowly fill up with nonsense characters and crash the game.


But there are a few quirks that separate it from your average Pac-Man experience.
